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Thursday, February 19, 2015

The world is changing-

Well, that's an obvious statement. However, the concept of change, though obvious, is rarely considered seriously in the long term. What does it mean? For my kids, it means that the world of their childhood will have little in common with the world of their adult years- just as my carefree shenanigans of the 1970s have little bearing on the realities of today.

I didn't have a cell phone to call home in case I'd be late (does any kid actually do that?)

I didn't have a Facebook page to keep up with my classmates... do the kids still call each other classmates? Or is it homies?

I get confused...

Anyway, the changes in technology have placed a citizen archive of software products on the web, so many in fact that the market has shifted from a capitalistic reality to one of public service.

What it means is that software is valued not as a commodity but as a service.

Meaning more often that not, better products are available outside the shrink-wrapped boxes at BestBuy.

For free.

Services such as Giveaway buck the system of charging consumers for the software, while making a difference in spreading usable platforms for public use. No licenses, not automatic credit card billing, no spyware, ad-ware, spam... all the little extras that make commercial software a pain in the butt. The controls of a new world order...

My kids are going to grow up in a world with 3-D holographic messaging.

Public domain potential.

With on demand 3-D printing.

At the push of a button.

With fluid communications.

At the speed of thought.

With internet connections that don't sound like a strangled cat, ala AOL.

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WT is a writer living in New England, messing with projects such as gardening, speculative fiction, exploration, and documentation of the unusual. His research has led him through the unexplained, the discredited, and the macabre. He is a writing/English professor with Mount Washington College, as well as NHTI and GSC. WT is fiction editor for The Tower Journal, and a senior editor with Collective Fallout, a GLBT? speculative literary magazine published in New Hampshire. If you wish to be a guest blogger on either Non-Sequiturs or Sci Fi Chronicle, feel free to email me at wabernathy23@yahoo.com with your proposed article idea.